Ezequiel 38:12

12 Lo saquearé y me llevaré el botín; atacaré a las ciudades reconstruidas de entre las ruinas, al pueblo reunido allí de entre las naciones; es un pueblo rico en ganado y posesiones, que se cree el centro del mundo’.

Ezequiel 38:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 38:12

To take a spoil, and to take a prey
These are the words of Gog continued; suggesting that he should have no occasion to fight; should have nothing else to do but to seize upon the goods and plunder the substance of these people: to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited:
such as were before desolate, and had lain long so, but now peopled and cultivated; these he would attack and demolish, and make a spoil and prey of: and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations;
a description of the Jews, as before; ( Ezekiel 38:8 ) which have gotten cattle and goods;
so that it should seem that Gog or the Turks will not immediately attack the Jews upon their possession of the land of Judea; but some time after, when they have settled in it, and have acquired much wealth and riches in cattle and goods, and then think to have a fine booty of them: that dwell in the midst of the land;
or, "the navel of the land" ^F16; which may design Jerusalem, situated in the midst of the land of Israel, and so called the navel of it, as that is in the midst of the body; as Enna is said by Cicero to be the navel of Sicily: or, as Kimchi thinks, the land of Israel itself is meant; which is in the midst of the world, and so the navel of it; though the former seems best.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (Urah rwbj le) (epi ton omfalon thv ghv) , Sept.; "in [vel] super umbilico terrae", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezequiel 38:12 In-Context

10 »”Así dice el SEÑOR omnipotente: En aquel día harás proyectos, y maquinarás un plan perverso.

11 Y dirás: ‘Invadiré a un país indefenso; atacaré a un pueblo pacífico que habita confiado en ciudades sin muros, puertas y cerrojos.

12 Lo saquearé y me llevaré el botín; atacaré a las ciudades reconstruidas de entre las ruinas, al pueblo reunido allí de entre las naciones; es un pueblo rico en ganado y posesiones, que se cree el centro del mundo’.

13 La gente de Sabá y Dedán, y los comerciantes de Tarsis y todos sus potentados, te preguntarán: ‘¿A qué vienes? ¿A despojarnos de todo lo nuestro? ¿Para eso reuniste a tus tropas? ¿Para quitarnos la plata y el oro, y llevarte nuestros ganados y posesiones? ¿Para alzarte con un enorme botín?’”

14 »Por eso, hijo de hombre, profetiza contra Gog y adviértele que así dice el SEÑOR omnipotente: “En aquel día, ¿acaso no te enterarás de que mi pueblo Israel vive confiado?